IF it be true that the heads of the country should set religious example to their inferiors, the E---- of R----, in his observance of one of the commandments, is a pattern to the community; for, not only on the Sabbath, but through the week, he takes care as Postmaster-General to do _no manner of work_. DCVII.--STERNE. SOME person remarked to him that apothecaries bore the same relation to physicians that attorneys do to barristers. "So they do," said Sterne; "but apothecaries and attorneys are not alike, for the latter do not deal in _scruples_." DCVIII.--WHO'S THE FOOL? MR. SERGEANT PARRY, in illustration of a case, told the following anecdote:-- Some merchants went to an Eastern sovereign, and exhibited for sale several very fine horses. The king admired them, and bought them; he, moreover, gave the merchants a lac of rupees to purchase more horses for him. The king one day, in a sportive humor, ordered the vizier to make out a list of all the fools in his dominions. He did so, and put his Majesty's name at the head of them. The king asked why. He replied, "Because you entrusted a lac of rupees to men you don't know, and who will never come back."--"Ay, but suppose they should come back?"--"Then I shall erase _your_ name and insert _theirs_." DCIX.--COLD COMFORT. A JURYMAN, kept several days at his own expense, sent a friend to the judge to complain that he had been paid nothing for his attendance. "O, tell him," said the witty judge, "that if ever he should have to go before a jury himself he will get one for nothing." DCX.--A GREAT DIFFERENCE. "THE friends and opponents of the Bill," said a'Beckett, "are divided into two very distinct classes,--the a-bility and the no-bility." DCXI.--OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACTORS. KING JAMES had two comedies acted before him, the one at Cambridge, the other at Oxford; that at Cambridge was called _Ignoramus_, an ingenious thing, wherein one Mr. Sleep was a principal actor; the other at Oxford was but a dull piece, and therein Mr. Wake was a prime actor. Which made his Majesty merrily to say, that in Cambridge one _Sleep_ made him _wake_, and in Oxford one _Wake_ made him _sleep_. DCXII.--INQUEST--NOT EXTRAORDINARY. GREAT Bulwer's works fell on Miss Basbleu's head, And in a moment, lo! the maid was dead! A jury sat, and found the verdict plain-- "She died of _milk and water on the brain_." DCXIII.--STRANGE JETSUM. A THIN old man, with a rag-bag in his hand, was picking up a number of small pieces of whalebone which lay on the street. The deposit was of such a singular nature, that we asked the quaint-looking gatherer how he supposed they came there. "Don't know," he replied, in a squeaking voice; "but I 'spect some unfortunate female was _wrecked_ hereabout somewhere." DCXIV.--THE TRUTH AT LAST.